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Originally Posted by hebahosni
 this is ironic that i find you talking about native speakers who expect that others know their languages. the situation is very different here as Egyptians or Arabs in general believe that foreigners don't know a word of their language so they automatically start communicating in English with any foreigner. that actually makes foreigner students who study arabic very angry as they find that hinder their attempts to improve their arabic through communicating with natives. i don't know if this is relevant, i just wanted to share it with you.  |
Haha, this happens also with the Japanese
I've studied Japanese at the university for 7 years, I lived and studied one year in Japan (at a Japanese university) and I speak Japanese quite fluently, so you can imagine how frustrated I get, when I am in Japan and Japanese people try to communicate with me in very bad English, which I don't understand because their pronunciation is awful, ignoring my fluent Japanese
Only when I tell them directly that the should speak Japanese and not English they start speaking normal Japanese.